Tim DeKay

Timothy Robert DeKay was born on June 12, 1963, in the upstate New York town of Lansing, near Ithaca. One of two sons of James and Jill DeKay, who later divorced, DeKay staged backyard plays with his younger brother and performed in student dramatics at Lansing High School. In 1981, an athletic scholarship brought him to the private LeMoyne College in Syracuse, where he majored in business and minored in philosophy. Between classes, DeKay pitched in at the Firehouse Theatre, a converted fire station-turned-performance space, where he built sets and played the occasional role. Graduating from LeMoyne in 1985, he worked for a casket company while preparing to pursue a career either in business...